5 Blossac Court Northampton NN5 6EW

2025/0656/FULLFull Planning PermissionApproved

Full

Approved on 9 June 2025

Council decision: ApprovalPlanning committee

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Change of Use from Dwelling House C3 to Residential Institution C2.

Received: 4 February 2025
Decision level: Planning committee
Council: West Northamptonshire Council
Ward: Duston Ward

ReceivedReceived4 Feb
ValidatedValidated26 Feb
Consult.Consultation28 Apr
TargetTarget Date12 Jun
DecidedDecided9 Jun

Decided in 103 days (council typically 70)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 5 Blossac Court Northampton NN5 6EW. West Northamptonshire has handled 9,971 applications of this type. This one was decided in 125 days, 8 weeks longer than West Northamptonshire's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 48 applications across Duston Ward. We hold 788 applications in total for the NN5 postcode area.

89% of full applications at West Northamptonshire Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 10 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode: NN5 6EW
Application type: Full Planning Permission
Scale / size: Medium
Parish: Duston Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated: 26 February 2025
Last date for comments: 28 April 2025
Target decision date: 12 June 2025
Committee meeting: 5 June 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address: 98 High Street Weston Favell Northampton NN3 3JX

Planning decision

Statutory period: 106 days

Additional information

Documents: 93

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

Source: West Northamptonshire

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